Muswell Hill might not seem the obvious place for a global news network, but from here Paul Eedle runs a website that allows people to tell their own stories. The result challenges conventional news media, he tells Maureen Paton.

'It is now a very good day to get out anything that we want to bury.' So claimed Labour spin doctor Jo Moore on September 11. Suddenly the PR industry is under a cloud but, asks Julia Day, how should media relations be handled at the moment?

This war is as much a media war as a military one. The west's success in this conflict will not be determined just by its military action in Afghanistan, but rather by the way it keeps world public opinion on its side. Abul Taher reports.